Ellen Prentiss Campbell
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social
info on novels, stories, reviews
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and see Girl Writing Blog:https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/portal-to-the-past
www.ellencampbell.net
and see Girl Writing Blog:https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/portal-to-the-past
Pinned
"Nevertheless, It Persisted: My father’s favorite reading chair endures across the generations." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/nev... @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social #booksky
Best seat in the house!
Thanks, New Door!
"In a life beset by loss and illness, she wrote through some dark days and moods in this house. 'All sorrows can be borne, if you put them into a story,' she once said."
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social visits the Karen Blixen museum.
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@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social visits the Karen Blixen museum.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Thanks, New Door!
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Miss Jean Brodie & her creator...too close for comfort? Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social
A formidable figure requires — and finds here — a formidable biographer. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/e... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social #booksky
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Miss Jean Brodie & her creator...too close for comfort? Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social
Other than that, she's a peach. Enjoyed the read!
"The author comes alive in these pages as self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing, self-mythologizing, and hypersensitive to slight."
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social reviews the new biography of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson.
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#literature #biography
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social reviews the new biography of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/e...
#literature #biography
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Other than that, she's a peach. Enjoyed the read!
There is Nothing Like a Dame, New Door!
"The author comes alive in these pages as self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing, self-mythologizing, and hypersensitive to slight."
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social reviews the new biography of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/e...
#literature #biography
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social reviews the new biography of Muriel Spark by Frances Wilson.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/e...
#literature #biography
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There is Nothing Like a Dame, New Door!
Miss Jean Brodie & her creator...too close for comfort? Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social
A formidable figure requires — and finds here — a formidable biographer. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/e... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social #booksky
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Miss Jean Brodie & her creator...too close for comfort? Thanks @wirobooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
A new United Nations report shows the gap between climate targets and climate policies is narrowing, but not fast enough to avert catastrophic warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius.
New UN Report Warns of Lagging Climate Action - Inside Climate News
The gap between climate promises and climate action is barely narrowing, and that puts Earth on course for a “climate breakdown,” UN Sec. Gen. António Guterres warns.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A new United Nations report shows the gap between climate targets and climate policies is narrowing, but not fast enough to avert catastrophic warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius.
To a man of Peace. Uppsala, Sweden.
September 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
To a man of Peace. Uppsala, Sweden.
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NBCC member Julia M. Klein reviewed Sam Wachman's "The Sunflower Boys" for the Forward:
Amid the terror of war in Ukraine, a stirring debut novel demonstrates the power of love and art
Set amid the terror of war in Ukraine, Wachman's debut is a novel of unmistakable authenticity and empathy.
buff.ly
August 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
NBCC member Julia M. Klein reviewed Sam Wachman's "The Sunflower Boys" for the Forward:
Now this is what I call a Reading List! No! A Curriculum!
32 Books They Should Assign in School (but Probably Won’t) www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/32-... #booksky @raimalarter.bsky.social @taracampbell.bsky.social @heidifeminist.bsky.social @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social @roserankin.bsky.social @marthaannetoll.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Now this is what I call a Reading List! No! A Curriculum!
My latest blog...Dare to read about Dare!
Some childhood favorites should remain in childhood. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/let... @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social #booksky
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
My latest blog...Dare to read about Dare!
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/let...
My latest blog. Dare to read about Dare!
My latest blog. Dare to read about Dare!
Let Sleeping Dolls Lie | Washington Independent Review of Books
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August 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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My latest blog. Dare to read about Dare!
My latest blog. Dare to read about Dare!
Reposted by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
Join Riah Butler at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC today at 5:45 p.m. for "The Write Stuff: Making Haikus and Understanding Environmental Justice." It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... #Booksky
July 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Join Riah Butler at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC today at 5:45 p.m. for "The Write Stuff: Making Haikus and Understanding Environmental Justice." It's our Spotlight Event! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... #Booksky
Thanks @WIROB. Still unpacking AL trip.
July 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Thanks @WIROB. Still unpacking AL trip.
Reposted by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
Officials in a rural school district voted on Tuesday to begin developing a tax break agreement intended to draw Exxon to their stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Corpus Christi www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/t...
Plans advance for $10 billion Exxon plastics plant on the Texas coast
Officials at a rural school district voted on Tuesday to begin developing a tax break agreement intended to draw Exxon to their stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Corpus Christi.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Officials in a rural school district voted on Tuesday to begin developing a tax break agreement intended to draw Exxon to their stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Corpus Christi www.texastribune.org/2025/05/01/t...
Reposted by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
Advocates for people held in an immigration detention center in Estancia, N.M. say sewage is again backing up into their cells, and they do not have access to clean drinking water, leaving them unable to flush toilets or take showers and exacerbating illnesses and hygiene issues/
Sewage flooding cells inside Torrance County ICE prison again, advocates say • Source New Mexico
Torrance County and CoreCivic acknowledge water problems but deny lack of potable water and sewage backups.
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May 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Advocates for people held in an immigration detention center in Estancia, N.M. say sewage is again backing up into their cells, and they do not have access to clean drinking water, leaving them unable to flush toilets or take showers and exacerbating illnesses and hygiene issues/
Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That insideclimatenews.org/news/1504202...
Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That - Inside Climate News
House Bill 4572 would introduce new requirements for pits where drillers bury oil and gas waste. Supporters of the bill gave testimony this week at the state capitol.
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April 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That insideclimatenews.org/news/1504202...
MAAC just opened in El Paso. Viva Borderland Arts!
April 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
MAAC just opened in El Paso. Viva Borderland Arts!
Best seat in the house, for 60 years
NBCC member @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social wrote about the joys of the ancestral reading chair in her Girl Writing column for the Washington Independent Review of Books:
Nevertheless, It Persisted | Washington Independent Review of Books
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April 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Best seat in the house, for 60 years
Best seat in the house!
"Nevertheless, It Persisted: My father’s favorite reading chair endures across the generations." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/nev... @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social #booksky
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Best seat in the house!
PA & TX are not so far apart Thanks @insideclimatenews.org
On its “day of deregulation,” the EPA announced that it will revise the rules governing oil and gas wastewater, a move that could affect Eastern states like Pennsylvania
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News
Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”
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March 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
PA & TX are not so far apart Thanks @insideclimatenews.org
Cats 9 lives Author? Sequel?
"A sincere, sometimes irritating ode to a feline companion." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/m... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social #booksky #memoir
March 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Cats 9 lives Author? Sequel?
An important issue, critical resource. Thanks for covering
El Paso Water broke ground on its advanced water purification facility, which will turn wastewater into drinking water for the desert city.
El Paso Is Going to Turn Wastewater Into Drinking Water. Other Cities Will Soon Follow - Inside Climate News
El Paso Water broke ground on the first U.S. facility that will treat wastewater for direct re-use in a city water supply, using a four-step process to transform wastewater into clean, potable drinkin...
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March 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
An important issue, critical resource. Thanks for covering
A salute to the first one to speak out.
In her Girl Writing column for the @wirobooks.bsky.social, NBCC member @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social wrote about character names and the virtue of mercy:
Oh, Mercy. | Washington Independent Review of Books
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buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A salute to the first one to speak out.
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“No statute, regulation or anything else gives any federal agency power to unilaterally refuse to spend congressionally appropriated funds”: Pennsylvania is the latest state to sue the Trump administration over its funding freeze.
Pennsylvania Climate Programs Hit by Federal Spending Cuts, Governor Says in Lawsuit vs. Trump - Inside Climate News
This latest state challenge says the freeze of congressionally authorized funds is illegal.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“No statute, regulation or anything else gives any federal agency power to unilaterally refuse to spend congressionally appropriated funds”: Pennsylvania is the latest state to sue the Trump administration over its funding freeze.